Hannibal

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...films. The action drama, a critical and commercial success, won the Academy Award for best picture and earned Scott his second Oscar nomination for best director. His next film,
Hannibal (2001), was a box-office hit despite poor reviews, and his military drama
Black Hawk Down (2001) was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best...

role of

Hopkins

Hopkins revived his celebrated portrayal of
Hannibal Lecter in
Hannibal (2001) and
Red Dragon (2002) before leading the cast of a 2003 adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel
The Human Stain. In 2005 he starred as a brilliant mathematician afflicted with mental illness in
Proof and as a New Zealand...

Moore

...In 2001 she assumed the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling—originated by Jodie Foster in
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)—in its sequel,
Hannibal. Her renderings of women suffocated by the repressive social mores of the 1950s in Haynes’s
Far from Heaven (2002) and Stephen Daldry’s
The...

Oldman

...vice presidential nominee as a corrupt senator in
The Contender (2000). In the Ridley Scott-helmed
Silence of the Lambs sequel
Hannibal (2001), he disappeared under layers of prostheses to play
Hannibal Lecter’s former patient and nemesis, whom the cannibal induced into cutting off his own face after drugging him.